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Comment Re:What could (Score 2, Funny) 403

by uselessengineer on Monday May 10, 2010 @07:33PM (#32163604) Attached to: Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines

Well, let's see. The salt falls back down. A proportion of it falls to the ground, slowly salting farmland. Famine sets in, and after the temporary greenhouse impact of a few hundreds of millions of corpses decaying, anthropogenic global warming reduces by virtue of less "anthropo" to "genic" that carbon dioxide.

Problem solved.

It's Got What Plants Crave. It's Got Electrolytes!

Comment Re:EA, you've missed the point (Score 1) 313

by uselessengineer on Monday March 22, 2010 @06:10PM (#31576306) Attached to: EA To Charge For Game Demos

Where do i go to get the demo of the demo of the game?

Comment Re:An easier plan (Score 1) 555

by uselessengineer on Monday March 15, 2010 @03:49PM (#31486544) Attached to: US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks

Operation strategies and plans during warfare

Go ahead and have congress declare war, then we can talk.

Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All 445

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @12:49AM from the nevermind dept.

Thomas M Hughes writes "We're all familiar with the claim that it's horribly dangerous to allow our children on to the Internet. It's long been believed that the moment a child logs on to the Internet, he will experience a flood of inappropriate sexual advances. Turns out this isn't an accurate representation of reality at all. A high-profile task force representing 49 state attorneys general was organized to find a solution to the problem of online sexual solicitation. But instead the panel has issued a report (due to be released tomorrow) claiming that 'Social networks are very much like real-world communities that are comprised mostly of good people who are there for the right reasons.' The report concluded that 'the problem of child-on-child bullying, both online and offline, poses a far more serious challenge than the sexual solicitation of minors by adults.' Turns out the danger to our children was all just media hype and parental anxiety." Those who have aggressively pushed the issue of the dangerous Internet, such as Connecticut's attorney general Richard Blumenthal, are less than happy with the report.

Comment Re:Steam is a good example (Score 1) 81

by uselessengineer on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @01:18PM (#25206615) Attached to: Steam To Begin Hosting Game Mods

The problem with Steam is that if you harm valve in any way:

(1) If Valve Anti Cheat (VAC) detected a hack on your computer, false positive or not
(2) They have a billing mistake and double charge you and refuse to remove the charge and when you charge-back through the credit card company

Then they lock ALL your content, even single-player only games (like portal) so you cannot play them or install them ever again.

I've had a friend suffer from (1) when he played at a LAN party and i've had a friend suffer from (2) when he tried to purchase a gift for his girlfriend's brother. They both had a lot of games on their account and both got their access removed and customer service refuses to help.

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